Threw on some sweats and a hoodie and yard shoes to walk around our yard with my wife before she went off to work and we found a trespasser going down our drainage creek. Thought I would share

I'm going to try something for a few days and see if it catches on. One of the best things about this community is the great style discussions we have from time to time, and I'd like to see that occur on a more regular basis - which don't happen as often in OOTD posts (which I love) or random humor or motivational posts. To that end, I'm going to start posting daily style stand-up posts - to try to encourage style discussions each day around a specific item. Some days the item might be in all of our wheel-houses, other days it may be out of our comfort zone. There are only two rules: - Answer the three questions. - Human answers only. (No AI responses.) The second rule is because I believe the community is best served by reading what actual humans in this actual community actually think. And, yes, there are too many words in that sentence with actual as the root... The first rule is to keep things simple and easy to follow. Just answer the following three questions: - Is this item (perhaps in a different color or different fabric) already in my closet? - What is one way I would style this item with things currently in my closet? - What is one thing not currently in my closet I would buy to style with this item? Today's item is the linen Henley shirt. For today's example, I've picked a cotton-linen blend Henley in a light blue color from Abercrombie & Fitch. This shirt happens to be made with a 70% cotton and 30% linen blend.

What to say in your intro? Share where you're from, your reason for joining, perhaps your favorite fragrance, watch or a picture of you dressed sharp! It's a small action, but a HUGE step in you getting value from this community becasue you go from being a lurker to an ACTIVE member. In fact men that introduce themselves are 10X more likely to the actions to becoming their best selves. Bonus Point - By introducing yourself you're guaranteed to level-up. Seriously, you'll get at least 5-20 likes/points (oftentimes more) which will move you to level 2 and possibly level 3. And just like that you have access to more of this community!

You can go down a number of rabbit-holes on the topic of shoes and foot health, as I have in recent years, but the good news is that traditional marketing blather disguised as medical advice is rapidly giving way to actual science. Much of this research comes purely from a sports-science perspective, but we are seeing more and more general-purpose, science based, foot health advice making its way into the mainstream. A couple of bottom lines: - Anatomical toe boxes combined with zero-drop heels typically promote increased foot health by allowing the foot to function as intended. - Heel and mid-foot shoe structure - often labeled as support - is important for high-impact performance activities but bad for everyday wear - as the overly restricted foot movement promotes atrophy and degraded foot health. The question that needs answering is why, for so long, have so many people been so wrong about foot health? To answer this, let's start at the beginning... For millenia, all shoes were anatomical - they were literally custom made to fit each individual's feet. And they typically bore little resemblance to the modern dress shoe. So, from where did the look of modern dress shoes come - with narrow, tapered toe boxes and soles that artificially lift your heel 2-3 centimeters off the ground? Both of those aspects were born - in different ways - from the simple fact that those aspects were NOT functional; those aspects made those shoes not fit for walking and working. Heels, of course, came from riding boots. Narrow, tapered toe boxes came from the medieval, aristocratic, "clown" shoes with absurdly long toes. People who wore these styles effectively wore them as a symbol that they were not required to use their feet. Because they weren't required to use their feet for traveling or working, they were allowed to wear footwear specifically designed to not perform those functions. It was literally a choice to wear unhealthy footwear, as a symbol of wealth. These traditions were compounded by the advent of mass manufacturing and the use of "standard" last patterns. Unfortunately, these lasts typically weren't designed to promote foot health but, instead, to be as easy and inexpensive as possible to manufacture.

I have been experimenting with white + navy blue (and white + black/charcoal) combination. I think these contrasts are too visually striking. I did find some fashion videos that concur with my opinion. What's your take? Here is the poll.